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Week 3 history and workings of the supreme court

The Supreme Court and its workings

    The Supreme Court of the United States is the highest court in the judiciary system with 9 judges all presidentially appointed. Some Supreme Court positions are served longer than the president that appointed them, or an entire lifetime. 

    The Supreme Court is held in the highest regard with the utmost respect, often giving the process and the judges an intimidating reputation; but it is not to be forgotten that these judges are people too, and although people of the law, they are just in their decision makings and have learned to be in a high position representing a great majority.

    However, there can be bias as presidents have been known to try and influence the court's majority opinion by appointing specific officials as judges, some with success, some not so lucky.

    Receiving hundreds of thousands of cases a year, the Supreme Court has its own protocol and process for filtering out cases they can not or should not handle. They also consider cases that have already been previously argued.

    Officials interviewed in this video, argued that the court is open and is not a close-mined environment. Supreme Court judges wait for the problems to be brought to them, because the issues have boiled up in the country so much so, they must now be addressed. 

    There is a large dialogue within the court for the judges to converse with itself though the lawyers and attorneys. It, next, goes through the argument process.

    Ruth B. Ginsberg says when arguing before the court you have to be able to "roll with the punches."

    







 

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